Dawn Colley, Ph.D.

• Ph.D. University of Colorado

• Cultural Rhetorics
• Public Rhetorics and Advocacy
• Applied Public Humanities
• Rhetorics of Image, Sound, and the Body

I explore the intersection of and interplay between rhetoric, semiotics, and the self. In particular, I am interested in understanding more deeply the connection between the rhetoric of the self and the "other" and the ways in which our knowledge of self-rhetoric impacts decision making, personal empowerment, and reverence for everyone and everything. From teaching STEM students to connect with public audiences to helping writers to explore the connection between self-rhetoric, self-conception, creativity, and the power to become, my efforts from my research to my writing to my pedagogical choices underscore the influence of language to shape ourselves and our reality in intentional, empowered, and beautiful ways.

• "Navigating Politics in the Classroom." CE Lunch-and-Learn Series. Boulder, CO, Fall 2024.
• "Difficult Discussions in the Classroom." CE Lunch-and-Learn Series. Boulder, CO, Spring, 2024.
• "Playtime in the Wild Unknown: the Self, Courage, and the Exhilaration of the Untamed." Conference on Writing and Well-Being, Tucson, AZ, 2024.
• "Spaces of Intent: Shaping a Physical-Virtual Classroom for a Post-COVID World." The CEA Critic 83.2 (July 2021): 105-118.
• "Of Twit-Storms and Demagogues: Trump, Illusory Truths of Patriotism, and the Language of the Twittersphere." President Donald Trump and his Political Discourse: Ramifications of Rhetoric via Twitter. Ed. Michele Lockhart. Routledge: Taylor and Francis, 2018.

• WRTG 3020 Narrative and the Self
• WRTG 3020 Ways of Telling the Story
• WRTG 3030 Science in the Public Sphere
• WRTG 3045 Writing for Emerging Workplaces